Writing
for
Social Change

Tamiko Beyer is the co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power.

Her other books and chapbooks are Last Days (Alice James Books), We Come Elemental (Alice James Books), Dovetail (co-authored with Kimiko Hahn, Slapering Hol Press) and bough breaks (Meritage Press). Her poetry and articles have been published widely, including by Denver Quarterly, Idaho Review, Dusie, Black Warrior Review, Georgia Review, Lit Hub, and the Rumpus.

She publishes Starlight & Strategy, a monthly newsletter for living life wide awake and shaping change. Subscribe here.

She has received awards, fellowships, and residencies from Lambda Literary, PEN America, Kundiman, Hedgebrook, VONA, and the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, among others.

She is a queer, mixed race (Japanese and white), cisgender woman and femme, living in on Massachusett land. A social justice communications writer and strategist, she spends her days writing truth to power.